Upcoming Events!

If you had fun at our Summer Reading Kickoff Picnic, you will have a blast at our End of Summer Party! Gain greater cultural awareness learning about the Haitian culture by Anderson Dovilas. Then enjoy his talented Haitian drumming!

This is the official "Tyranny of Dragons" campaign and is designed for players who are new to the game of Dungeons & Dragons or new to 5th Edition (D&D 5e). The campaign is set in the long-established D&D setting of the Forgotten Realms not far from the fabled city of Neverwinter.

On Monday nights, come grab a controller and play your favorite classic Nintendo and Sega games on Sideshow's 80" TVs for a gaming experience like no other. Free to play! Plus, each week a game will be featured in a tournament with gift cards and prizes for the best button-mashers. Bring your friends and share a pitcher of Miller Lite or Coors Light for just $7!

Twisted Tuesday is a weekly event held at the Red Lion Pub. It features a home-cooked meal with a $2 donation to the Red Lion Community Emergency Fund. Live Music from bands in The Lion's Den and DJ's in the bar room going throughout the night alongside a friendly environment to showcase one's talents such as hooping, fire-arts, LED-arts, juggling, stilt-walking and much more!

Aug.5

5:00pm- 8:00pm

Lake Mary Food Truck Bazaar

Central Park, 100 North Country Club Road, Lake Mary, FL 32746, United States

I'm looking for some starting points and advice for a friend that suffered from excessive force from a police officer. The person is currently afraid to press charges, but I really think they should, so I'm doing some research on what it takes and what should be the first steps. I'm looking for basic but locally relevant stuff like what type of lawyers to talk to, recommendations, how much this process would cost, is it worth it?

Details:

The victim is from a Spanish speaking country and speaks English well, but not fluently and has trouble with fast English. They were confronted by a police officer brandishing a taser or gun, but didn't know what to do to comply. Multiple officers came from behind the victim and grabbed the victim by the shoulder. The victim reacted by pulling away and an officer responded by hitting the victim in the back of head with a baton or something. The victim was knocked unconscious and upon waking, was handcuffed and taken to jail, presumably for resisting arrest or something. The charges against the victim were all dropped in court and there is security footage of the event. Victim suffers from a cracked skull and brain damage, resulting in a number of symptoms both cognitive and physical. They are supposed to go talk to a surgeon but can't afford the expense at this point.

They were doing fine with money, but the medical and legal expense that they are incurring makes it so that they are going into debt very rapidly and can no longer make ends meet. I don't know what happened to lead up to these events, but I feel that victim suffered from excessive violence. They are not a big or threatening individual, and weren't armed, just confused as far as I can tell. I don't think what happened is at all fair, so I would really like to know how to find/afford medical attention for the individual since I think the state is at fault for what happened to them.

Thanks for the links. I'll try my best to get the person to contact someone. I'm afraid that expensive, long and draining isn't going inspire them though. So in the short term, she's on her own for medical help I guess?

From fighting against an officer to begin with.
A co worker had his skull split open during a routine traffic stop (he wasn't fighting, they just decided to beat his head into the ground).
No lawyer would defend him, so he had to let it go.